When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up putting on promotional badges: “BASS CULTURE IS FOLK ...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...

The slightly overwrought subtitle gives a good indication how computer enthusiast Sam Arbesman treats his subject. Software, ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore ...

It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...